Re: Threading problem in NSNetServices

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 7 Jan 2007, at 11:19, Chris Vetter wrote:

> Hullo,
>
> NSNetServices in SVN's -base have a bug with respect to threading,  
> that is, it tries to lock the same lock several times. I originally  
> avoided that problem by using pthread's spin-locks.
>
> For a more portable implementation (I guess), the current version  
> in -base uses GSLazyLocks, which cannot acquire a lock recursively  
> -- as its name implies, NSRecursiveLock can.

Thanks ... I didn't realise the lock was used recursively ... I  
changed svn to use recursive locks.

> BTW, NSNetServices are missing in Source/DocMakefile.

I added that (as well as NSValueTransformer which was also missing),  
and also made a few changed to get documentation to be generated  
without producing error/warning messages.